PRX - Pieces for Tone: Offbeat
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
In this episode we uncover the incredible story of Scottish surgeon James Braid, who entered the Manchester Athenaeum on 13th November, 1841 as a s...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 10:12
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 11:18
Workers involved in tomb construction in the Valley of the Kings staged the earliest recorded strike in history on 14th November, 1157 B.C. Having ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:11
Sir Anthony Blunt, esteemed art historian and a favourite of the Royal family, was publicly revealed as a Soviet spy on 15th November, 1979, when P...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 10:13
In this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly recall the eve...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 11:18
With the recent induction of Al Kooper into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, “Sounds Jewish” celebrates Jewish Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famers and othe...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
this week, NFTJU checks out music from Nigeria, Mali, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Morocco with some great jams from Fela Kuti, Ali Farka Toure, Tinar...
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, KRSC and more
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 6
THIS VERSION ADDS IVANKA TRUMP ON WITNESS STAND AT NY TRUMP TRIAL
Virginia and Ohio and Abortion Politics on the ballot. Trump on the stand, unde...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Along the path of flow, wherever it may lead…Uptempo Charlie “Bird” Parker also sax is our focus for the first section, Bird himself plays Cole Por...
Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KRZA, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS and more
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 02:00:03
- Purchases: 11
The Retro Cocktail Hour is a finger-snapping, hip-shaking blend of space age bachelor pad music, tiki tunes, private eye jazz and other incredibly ...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KGOU, KMXT, KAMU, KUCO and more
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
- Purchases: 35
The French government introduced a new State religion on 10th November, 1793: the ‘Cult of Reason’, which attempted to reflect the anti-clerical at...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 11:10
Presidential diplomacy now routinely involves hundreds of trips on Air Force One – but, until Theodore Roosevelt travelled to inspect the Panama Ca...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 09:06
It's music from the golden age of the hi-fi! The music itself goes by a lot of names: Lounge, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, Rat Pack, easy listenin...
Bought by KBBI Alaska, Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 4
Bruce Miller appeared to be the victim of a violent robbery at his salvage yard when his body was discovered on 8th November, 1999 - but he had act...
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 10:51
The first meteorite to crash land into Earth - and have its date recorded - impacted the hamlet of Ensisheim (in modern-day France, then Austria) o...
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 09:33
The Retro Cocktail Hour is a finger-snapping, hip-shaking blend of space age bachelor pad music, tiki tunes, private eye jazz and other incredibly ...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KBBI Alaska, KAMU, Royalton Community Radio, WLVT and more
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 01:58:30
- Purchases: 31
In today’s Sunday episode, exclusively for CLUB RETROSPECTORSsupporters on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, Arion, Rebecca and Olly unearth the origin...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:32
In a quirky blend of sports, public health, and self-promotion, boxing legend Muhammad Ali took on an unusual opponent at the Washington Monument o...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 10:16
Dropping bombs from planes was unheard of until 1st November 1911, when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti embarked on an aerial mission over Libya....
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 09:42
Mike inputs?: Mike Johnson (House Speaker)..Mike Pence (candidate dropout)..Mike McCaul ( GOP Chair, House Foreign Affairs Committee).. More Trump ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
For this week’s Sunday episode, exclusively for 🌴 CLUB RETROSPECTORS 🌴members, we explore the incredible history of the at-home pregnancy test, fir...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 10:18
Johnny Campbell, a medical student from the University Of Minnesota, spurred on his alma mater’s struggling football team by leading spectators in ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 09:52
On 30 October, 1990, with little fanfare and without any cameras present, the first connection was made between the French half and the British hal...
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 10:26
When Queen and David Bowie met in Switzerland to record their iconic collaboration ‘Under Pressure’ on 26th October, 1981, *quite a lot* of drugs a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 10:06
- Added: Oct 29, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
